Ashes to Ashes (TV Series)

Episode #2.7 (2009)

Keeley Hawes: DI Alex Drake

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• Molly Drake : Mum? Mum? Mummy? Mummy? Mum? The doctor got the bullet out. You're going to be okay. He said if you get plenty of rest, and if there are no complications, you're going to wake up. You're going to be fine. Mum? Mummy? Mum?...

  Chris Skelton : ...Ma'am? Do you want a biscuit, ma'am? Do you want a biscuit?

  Alex Drake : No, I, erm, must have dozed off.

  Gene Hunt : This is supposed to be a stakeout not a midnight feast at Malory Towers.

  DS Ray Carling : Pillow fights and gym knickers, eh?

  [All laugh] 

  Gene Hunt : Shake a leg, boys. Informant has it something big is going off, and I'm not referring to Ray's unsavoury teenage fantasies.

  Chris Skelton : Here you are, guv, Shaz made it.

  Gene Hunt : Not enough sugar. Or milk. Or tea.

• Alex Drake : I'm going to wake up.

  Gene Hunt : It's about bloody time.

  Alex Drake : Yep, if there are no complications.

  Gene Hunt : You're staying here.

  Alex Drake : No, I'm fine, I just dozed off.

  Gene Hunt : You don't look it, I'm not carrying a dead weight. You can man the radio. Or woman it. Whichever you prefer.

  Alex Drake : Fine. Absolutely fine. All I'm saying to you is that you're going to miss me more than you know.

  Gene Hunt : Well, I think we'll manage.

• Alex Drake : [Sneaks up behind baddie and hits him with a piece of wood]  Say hello to Mummy Bear!

• Alex Drake : The site manager's here, Michael Lafferty.

  Gene Hunt : What?

  Alex Drake : What?

  Gene Hunt : Either you've got a meaningful bowel movement on the way or you're about to say "it's probably nothing, but..."

  Alex Drake : Don't be ridiculous. Well... it probably is nothing, but doesn't it seem a bit of a coincidence to you that we get a tip off, drugs *and* a body?

• Alex Drake : Come on! The bullet's out. It's bloody out! It's time to go home.

• Young Summers : Look, I know I might be putting my job on the line, but word is you're straight, totally kosher.

  Gene Hunt : Well apart from not being Jewish and the fact that, in my case, Sgt Rock is 100% intact,

  [looks at Alex] 

  Gene Hunt : in case you were wondering...

  Alex Drake : No.

  Gene Hunt : ...I'm as kosher as a rabbi at a matzo party, you can talk here.

• Alex Drake : Shaz, were there any calls?

  Shaz Granger : One or two, Ma'am.

  [Reads from her notebook] 

  Shaz Granger : Several people were looking for Mr Hugh Jarse. And it turned out that Mike Rotch was quite popular too. Five or six had chronic asthma and one man had some very imaginative suggestions. You did want them word for word

  [shows Alex the notebook] 

  Alex Drake : [reads notebook]  Oh God, sorry Shaz. What are people like?

• Alex Drake : You! You set this whole thing up then, the drug drop, the body, everything. Everything. You knew that it would be here.

  Martin Summers : Very good! I knew you were the right woman for the job.

  Young Summers : Is this the guy you're looking for?

  Martin Summers : I think I probably am.

  Alex Drake : You can't do this, you can't change history.

• Gene Hunt : Someone forged it. Someone with easy access to the evidence room.

  Alex Drake : Whoever took it, why would they want a poem?

  Gene Hunt : Who says it was a poem? Maybe Tomascz was too scared to tell us what it really said.

• Martin Summers : Surely you don't believe that you are going to wake up just because they managed to get the bullet out.

  Alex Drake : How do you know, how could you possibly know? This is my world, this is my life. Who are you?

  Martin Summers : The only man who really understands, Alex.

  Alex Drake : You're there, aren't you? You're in the hospital.

  Martin Summers : I'm here... and I'm there.

• Gene Hunt : No sign of Summers. Both of them put one man in the frame.

  Alex Drake : Lafferty. But how could he know that we'd brought Tomascz in?

  Gene Hunt : Someone in our station told him. Probably the same bastard that stole the note. Someone in CID. Someone on my team.

  Alex Drake : You thinking about Mac?

  Gene Hunt : I'm thinking about Mac, about Kevin Hales, about every investigation that's gone tits up for as far back as I can remember.